palpa: Youth entrepreneurs here have voiced complaint for paying double taxation. Businessman Ashok Shrestha mentioned that they were facing problem for separately paying revenues at local level unit, cottage and small industry office and tax offices. Speaking at a programme organized on the occasion of the 10th National Industry Day in Rampur, the participants commented that they have to pay more than the registration fee while changing the name of their business entity. They pressed for changing the existing situation so as to facilitate the business operations.
According to National News Agency Nepal, chairperson of Rampur Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bhojendra Prakash Dhakal, stated that tax policy and monitoring policy of the state should be changed. He added the Chamber has been facilitating the industrialists and businessmen to resolve various problems. President of Lumbini Province Assembly’s Finance, Industry and Tourism Committee, Raju Prasad Shrestha, shared that the province government has b
rought the Industrial Business Promotion Act to promote industry and business. “The law is in the implementation stage and initiatives will be taken to resolve the problems seen during the name change,” he said, adding they were working to benefit the entrepreneurs.
Currently, 3,756 industries and 4,285 commercial firms are operating in Palpa, informed Industry Officer at the Cottage and Small Industry Office, Shyam Kumar Poudel. He said that the number of entrepreneurs canceling the registration of industries in the district has increased lately. With the implementation of federalism, the number of entrepreneurs and industrialists registering new business entity in the office has decreased due to the transfer to the local level. The number of industrialists and businessmen has increased in the district, whereas the number of registrations at the domestic and small industries office has decreased.